Solomon Northup Quotes & Sayings
4 most famous Solomon Northup quotes and sayings (businessman).
“There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.”
“There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.”
“I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.”
“Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.”
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